Canvas printing of one of my landscape photos at the cosy printing laboratory "Atelierul de Print" in Bucharest, Romania. I was really impressed by the results, may be it's an interesting alternative to my Diasec finishing?
I traveled to Bucharest a few days ago to prepare some new creative projects. Here I am with Alex from McCann advertising agency, in front of the "Palace of the Parliament", one of the biggest buildings in the world. It was minus 25 degrees celsius that day! I'll share soon the projects I've worked on when I was there.
Photo of Nicoleta Ionescu by Dragos Jianu
Portrait by Nicoleta Ionescu
Photo by Dragos Jianu
Ben by Rohan Voigt
Where to, Basescu?
By Mihai Colibaba
"The sailor keeps fighting! What shall WE do ?". This is one of the many messages I’ve received today, after Romanian president Traian Basescu was suspended by Parliament with 322 votes in favor and 108 votes against. The political crisis, determined by the internal friction between the president and prime minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu, has not come to an end. Basescu is still a president, at least until Monday, when the Constitutional Court gives its vote. First in Bucharest, then, all over the country, people have gathered to support Basescu and accuse the coalition between the Liberals (PNL), the Social-Democrats (PSD) and the Hungarian minority (UDMR). The Parliament accused Traian Basescu of violations to the country’s Constitution, whereas the Constitutional Court decided that the president perpetuated his constitutional rights and his allegations were nothing but political opinions to which, as any other citizen, Basescu is entitled to.
A different war
The Digital Guerilla, as we used to call Basescu’s people during the electoral campaign in 2004, has come to life again. They sent thousands of SMS, MMS and IM messages today. And they launched websites, such as www.pentrutine.net/traian-basescu.html, where visitors are encouraged to click the yellow link if they support Basescu, or the red one, if they don’t. I didn’t click any link. I voted for Basescu when he ran for president, in 2004, because I considered him the only alternative to the social democrates, then represented by former prime minister Adrian Nastase. I still do, and I’ll vote for him when he runs again. The Constitution entitles him to, and the Democrats and Liberal Democrats will choose him as a candidate.
He feels like a winner
Prime minister and Liberal leader Calin Popescu Tariceanu stated that he is fully assuming governance, all the more so as Romania need to be governed in the months ahead. Tariceanu also made an appeal that all the political disputes be solved within the democratic framework of the Romanian state and that the disputes should not be transferred in the streets.
Back to the people
When he joined the people gathered in the University Square in Bucharest, the president assured them he had understood the message of the people in the street and would do what is best for the country. " I have understood your message and I assure you that I am going to do what is right for the country. I will not desert Romanian people", said Basescu.
Simply quiet
Sibiu, European Capital of Culture in 2007, was quiet today. Just a dozen people, out of a population of 180,000 who heavily voted for him in 2004, gathered in the city’s public square. "They don’t have to protest in the public square. They’ll cast their votes, and that’s it. Basescu will be mantained in position, after the poll. If he doesn’t resign and if «they» don’t change the law while he’s suspended", says local Democrat leader, Nicolae Nan. Then he went home to watch the football game on TV.
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Nichita Stanescu was a Romanian poet and essayist. He is one of the most acclaimed contemporary Romanian poets, beloved by the public and generally held in esteem by literary critics.
Nichita Stanescu finished high school in Ploiesti, then went on to study Romanian language and literature in Bucharest, graduating in 1957. He made his literary debut in the Tribuna literary magazine.
Stanescu married Magdalena Petrescu in 1952, but the couple separated a year later. In 1962 he married Doina Ciurea. In 1982 he married Todoriţa "Dora" Tarita.
For much of his career, Stanescu was a contributor to and editor of Gazeta Literara;, România Literara; and Luceafarul.
His editorial debut was the poetry book Sensul iubirii ("The Aim of Love"), which appeared under the Luceafarul selection, in 1960. The last volume of poetry published in his lifetime was Noduri si semne ("Knots and Signs"), published in 1982.
Nichita Stanescu received numerous poetry awards, of which the most important was the Herder Prize (1975) as well as a Nobel Prize nomination.
Unfortunately, he died of hepatitis relatively young, leaving behind a legendary name and some of the most important poetry in post-war Romanian literature
Tristan Tzara was a Romanian poet and essayist. He was one of the founders of the Dada movement, known best for his manifestos. He was a collaborater with Marcel Janco. It is speculated that the word "Dada" comes from the Romanian "Yes, yes" and is thusly originated from Tzara and Janco's contributions.
Tzara was born in Moinesti, Bacau, Romania to a family of Romanian-speaking Jewish ancestry. Tzara wrote the first Dada texts, La Première Aventure céleste de Monsieur Antipyrine (The First Heavenly Adventure of Mr. Antipyrine) (1916), Vingt-cinq poèmes (Twenty-Five Poems) (1918), and the movement's manifestos, Sept manifestes Dada (Seven Dada Manifestos) (1924).
In Paris he engaged in tumultuous activities with Dadaists André Breton, Philippe Soupault, and Louis Aragon to shock the public and to disintegrate the structures of language.
In late 1929, weary of nihilism and destruction, he joined his friends in the more constructive activities of Surrealism. He devoted much of his time to the reconciliation of Surrealism and Marxism and joined the French Communist Party in 1937. He was active in the French Resistance movement during World War II. He left the Communist Party in 1956, in protest against the Soviet quelling of the Hungarian Revolution.
His political commitments brought him closer to his fellow human beings, and he gradually matured into a lyrical poet. His poems revealed the anguish of his soul, caught between revolt and wonderment at the daily tragedy of the human condition. His mature works started with L'Homme approximatif (The Approximate Man) (1931), and continued with Parler seul (Speaking Alone) (1950), and La Face intérieure (The Inner Face) (1953). In these, the anarchically scrambled words of Dada were replaced with a difficult but humanized language. He died in Paris and was burried there in the famous Cimetière du Montparnasse.
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